China is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to do it. Beijing’s vision would move us away from the universal values that have sustained so much of the world’s progress over the past 75 years.

The US Senate passed a $40 billion bill Thursday that provides humanitarian and military assistance to Ukraine. After a week of delay, the vote means President Joe Biden will be able to sign the bill into law just as billions in aid passed earlier this year runs out. VOA’s Congressional Correspondent Katherine Gypson has more. Producer: Katherine Gypson

Turkey´s president on Monday complicated Sweden and Finland´s historic bid to join NATO, saying he cannot allow them to become members of the alliance because of their perceived inaction against exiled Kurdish militants.

Kristina Kvien has been the head of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine for more than two years as the U.S. Charge d'Affaires".

Recently, she has returned to Kyiv, sending a signal that security environment in the Ukrainian capital has changed.

This is exactly how Russians operate: demand maximum, threaten with ultimatum, insist on every inch, expect the west to give 1/3-1/2 of what they demand

Finland formally announced Sunday that it intends to apply for membership into the Western NATO military alliance, ignoring Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warning that the move would “negatively affect” peaceful relations between the neighboring countries.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and a delegation of GOP senators met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv during an unannounced visit Saturday, delivering the latest show of American solidarity with the country at war with Russia.

Colored marker stones placed on either side of a small river – blue and white for Finland, red and green for Russia – are all that separate the two countries in the windswept fields of the South Karelia region. The border stretches 1,340 kilometers from the Baltic Sea to the Arctic, much of it sparsely populated, frozen wilderness.

Today, President Joe Biden signed into law the Ukraine Lend-Lease Act, reviving a World War II-era program that will allow Ukraine to more efficiently request weapons to repel Russia’s invasion. The bill, passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, is similar to legislation passed in 1941 that helped U.S. allies defeat the Nazis. VOA Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb takes us to a base in Fairbanks, Alaska, which was vital to the original 1941 Lend-Lease agreement.

VOA's Eastern Europe Bureau Chief, Myroslava Gongadze, spoke with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi May 2, 2022, as Pelosi and the rest of the U.S. congressional delegation laid a wreath at the tomb of unknown soldier in Warsaw.